Word: wipperfurth
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...Germany's big Henschel Werke (locomotives, trucks, land movers) have been jailed on suspicion of defrauding the West German Defense Ministry, including President Fritz-Aurel Goergen, who was hauled away from a banquet honoring Chancellor Ludwig Erhard (TIME, May 8). Germany's biggest clothing manufacturer, Alfons Muller-Wipperfurth, was grabbed from a hospital bed and jailed on suspicion of tax evasion. In 1962, after Germany's saucy newsmagazine Der Spiegel questioned West Germany's military preparedness, police jailed Publisher Rudolf Augstein and five other Spiegel staffers on suspicion of treason. Released within three months, they still...
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